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UNrTE STATES PATENT rtree@ DANIEL SCHUYLER, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

MONUMENT.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 242,418, dated May 31,1881.

Application filed August 3, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, DANIEL ScHUYLER, ofBridgeport, in the count y of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements-in Monuments, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture ot' monumentsby the employment of ornamental metal tables, emblems, bas-reliefs,medallions, &c., in connection therewith, either for the purpose ot'placing on the monuments additional dates of deaths, dac., in a neat andreliable manner, Without cutting them into thc stone, or of restoringthe inscriptions and strengthening` and embellishing old and dilapidatedmonuments.

The invention consists of a stone monument to which one or more metallictablets are attached in such a manner that the connection is notVisible, it being obtained by casting the tablet around the heads ofsplit spring-bolts having notched ends, and inserting the bolts intosocket-holes which increase in width toward their rear ends and areiilled with soft cement, which, on hardening, forms a reliable andcompact connection of the spring-bolts with the stone.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents a perspective View ofa monument with my improved metallic tablet. Fig. 2 isa detail verticaltransverse section,showing the connection ot' thc tablet with themonument, and Fig. 3 is a detail side View of the springbolt detached.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a stone monument of any suitablesize and shape. To one or more sides of the same are applied ornamentaltablets B, which are preferably made of zinc or other white metal, theexterior surface of Which has been grained by the sandblast, orotherwise, so as to resemble in appearance the grain ofthe stone. Themetallic tablet B is attached to the stone monumentin such a manner thatthe means by which it is connected are not visibleV from the outside,they being entirely covered by the tablet. This connection is obtainedby the use of one or more split spring-bolts, C, which are secured tothe tablet by casting it around the (No model.)

annularly-grooved or notched heads a ofthe same, as shown in Fig. 2. Theouter ends ot' the spring-bolts C are provided with notches, so that thesoft cement, which is placed into the socket-holes of the monument, isforced in between the prongs and around the recessed ends of the same.The socket-holes are made ot' the usual haring or tapering shape,increasing in width from the mouth to the rear end, as is usual insetting keys or Wedges into stones, .the bolts being inserted into thesocketholes by rst compressing the spring-prongs so as to introduce theminto the mouths ot' the socket-holes, and, nally, by pressing them backinto the soft cement in the holes. When the cement in the socket-holeshas properly hardened a very reliable and entirely invisible connectionofthe tablet with the monument is obtained.

The tablet may also be used formural decorations of all kinds, and alsofor applying small zinc and other metallic ornaments to stone monumentsof anykind.

By using two tablets at opposite sides ot' the stones an old and brokenmonument may be repaired in a very neat and durable manner.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patentl. As an improvement in stone monuments, thecombination, with a stone monument, of a metallic tablet, and of boltswhereby the tablet is connected to the stone, said bolts being sosecured to the tablet as to be covered thereby when it is applied tothel stone, substantially as set forth.

2. In a stone monument, the combination of a stone monument, A, with ametallic tablet, B, and split spring-bolts C, the latter being securedto the tablet and retained by a cement tillin g in the taperingsocket-holes of the monument, substantially as described.

3. For fastening metallic tablets to monuments, a spring-bolt having an.annular head IOO to stone monuments, consisting in securing the heads ofthe connecting spring-bolts to the tablet, inserting the springboltsinto the socket-holes of the monument and pressing them back into thesoft cement filling of the holes, and allowing the cement to harden andthus retain the spring-boltsin the socket-holes, substantially as setforth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname, in pres- 1o ence of two witnesses, this 29th day of July,

DANIEL SGHUYLER. Witnesses toBERT E. PARSONS, EDWARD B. KUNKELMAN.

